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Los Angeles, CA has a population of 3.98M people with a median age of 35.6 and a median household income of $54,432. Between 2015 and 2016 the population of Los Angeles, CA grew from 3.97M to 3.98M, a 0.11% increase and its median household income grew from $52,024 to $54,432, a 4.63% increase.
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Los Angeles County, CA has a population of 10.1M people with a median age of 36.3 and a median household income of $61,338. Between 2015 and 2016 the population of Los Angeles County, CA declined from 10.2M to 10.1M, a 0.32% decrease and its median household income grew from $59,134 to $61,338, a 3.73% increase.
LA is a tech hub, with $ x ,000 tech jobs roughhty x% of the nation …. COmpanies like Amazon, Tesla, etc …have headquarters in Los Angeles. It is a vibrant segment of the economy. While California is the 7th economy in the world, Los Angeles is the 24th economy in the world bigger than countries like ….
Let’s take a look at the tech industry employment [1] numbers for the past 13 years.
Wages and Prospect
2017 Employment by major occupational group, 2016 and projected 2026 (Numbers in thousands) [1]. Tech employees are compensated nicely due to this tech boom. For example, in 207 while the annual medialn wage for all occupations was $37,000 in the U.S., it was $84,600 for the computer occupations, second only to $102,000 of the management occupations as shown in Table 1.
Total Jobs & Grownth from 2012 to 2017 - Dinamic Visualization
GoogleVis Motion Chart
Figure 1 shows the total jobs in the city of Los Angeles and County.
Figure 2 shows the grownth of all jobs in the city of Los Angeles and County.
Figure 3 shows the total tech jobs in the city of Los Angeles and County.
Figure 4 represents the year over year grownth of Tech jobs in the city of Los Angeles anc County.
Density of Tech Jobs by zip code from 2012 to 2017 - Dinamic Visualization
California is the center of high-tech and innovation in the world. [18].
Interactive Map
Conclusions
- Gender imbalance continues (Fig. 1)
- BRICS to outnumber Western countries by 2020 (Fig. 6)
- User prevalence moderatedly-correlated with innovation (Fig. 8)
Acknowledgements
- This project was largely inspired by conversations with Dr. William Yu, UCLA
- Dynamic Visualizations were inspire by Google Public Data Explorer.
- Fig. 3 and 5 was largely inspired by conversations with Ferran Pujol of McKinsey &Co. Chile.
- Fig. 6 inspired by the charts of @ash316 [15]
- Fig. 1,2,3 inspired by the charts of @paultimothymooney [4]
- Hadley Wickham, for his development of ggplot2 (Fig 7, 8), the open-source statistical analysis & data visualisation based on Leland Wilkinson’s book Grammar of Graphics.
#googleWalkout [2] and is bad business - says Forbes [3]. In Fig. 1 (above), we use superhero-themes #batman #wonderwoman to visualize the heavy topic of #gender_equality in #datascience. See a bar chart for a more accurate breakdown [4]. Source: survey question Q1 - What is your gender? Sample size = 23,859 respondents
- [2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/2/18057716/google-walkout-20-thousand-employees-ceo-sundar-pichai-meeting
- [3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/womensmedia/2017/08/03/breaking-down-the-gender-gap-in-data-science/#129d1bb74287
- [4] https://www.kaggle.com/paultimothymooney/2018-kaggle-machine-learning-data-science-survey
- [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_in_the_workforce
- [6] Sinton, E (2011). ‘Baby boomers are very privileged human beings’ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/8840963/Baby-boomers-are-very-privileged-human-beings.html retrieved October 23, 2013 from www.telegraph.co.uk
- [7] Ken Blanchard Companies. (2009). Next Generation of workers. http://www.kenblanchard.com/img/pub/Blanchard_Next_Generation_of_Workers.pdf Retrieved October 14, 2013, from kenblanchard.com
- [8] Adecco Group UK and Ireland. (n.d.). Managing the modern workforce. http://www.adeccogroupuk.co.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Adecco-Group-Workplace-Revolution.pdf Retrieved October 13, 2013, from www.Adeccouk.co.uk
- ref. needed
- [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluence_in_the_United_States
- [11] https://www.epi.org/blog/top-1-0-percent-reaches-highest-wages-ever-up-157-percent-since-1979/
- [12] J. Berengueres, Sketch thinking. 2016
- [13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marimekko#Marimekko_chart
- [14] ref. needed
- [15] https://www.kaggle.com/ash316/kaggle-journey-2017-2018
- [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS
- [17] https://www.kaggle.com/harriken/brics-growth
- [18] See primary vs. secondary color in https://material.io/design/color/the-color-system.html#color-theme-creation
- [19] Dutta, S., Reynoso, R.E., Garanasvili, A., Saxena, K., Lanvin, B., Wunsch-Vincent, S., Le?n, L.R. and Guadagno, F., 2018. THE GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX 2018: ENERGIZING THE WORLD WITH INNOVATION. GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX 2018, p.1.
- [20] CSV file global innovation in https://www.globalinnovationindex.org/analysis-indicator
- [21] World Bank, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL
- [22] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall_rank_correlation_coefficient
Generation year brakets and work-ethic attribute
- The Baby Boomers, born 1946 - 1964 “often branded workaholics” [6]
- Gen X, born 1967 - 1977 “this generation works to live and carry with them a level of cynicism” [7]
- Gen Y, “Millennials” born 1980 - 2000 “considered the most educated and self-aware generation in employment” [8]
- Gen Z, born 2000 -
Source - World Bank Population Data 2016, Q11 - Current country of residence [20]